These montages, part of a series called Boston Involution, are meditations on The New England Holocaust Memorial located in downtown Boston which remembers this horrific chapter in world history.
The New England Holocaust Memorial Website states that the Memorial is designed around six luminous glass towers, each reaching 54 feet high, and each lit internally from top to bottom. The number six has many meanings here: the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust; the names of the six main death camps; a row of memorial candles; and the six years, 1939-1945, during which the infamous “Final Solution,” the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, took place. In addition, millions of numbers are etched in the glass, representing the infamous tattoos inflected on many of the victims’ arms.